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amyparr

Hi guys,

I've just got a Virgin Media broadband connection installed at 20Mb and wanted to take advantage of this and heard that Usenet is the way forward. I'm familiar with torrents but they seem to go very slowly (I think virgin have limited access to torrents) so I thought I'd try newsgroups. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I was thinking of trying giganews.

Thanks!

nikzGfx

Giganews in one of the best servers about, but pricey. I just signed up to Astraweb last month on their 11 dollars a month special offer plan. Been happy with them.

DatabaseError

beware of VMs draconian throttling for peak time downloaders

456789

http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html very good deal

But as DatabaseError says VM has a lot of throttling during the day

also VM have their own newsgroup access too I think but limited to 7 days retention

Traveller1981

Xennews is as good as giganews but cheaper. I use xennews.

djkaizen

I use giganews and newzbin to source nzbs.
I also recommend http://www.sabnzbd.org/ as your download tool.

My set up consists of Giganews > Newzbin > AppleTV+ Boxee (Boxee.tv) > USB Hard Drive > TV

It is superb!

CHR15

Altbinz is a good free newsreader too.

giganews getting too expensive now, Astrawab is choice at the moment.

Astraweb ($11 a month)- Altbinz (Free) - Newzbin (pennies)

Ensure you have things like Quickpar (Free) - Winrar (Free) - 7-zip (Free)

banger9365

i have vm has main sever and Astraweb has fill server with the above programs

DatabaseError

That's the thing I miss with my current and last ISP... I have text ng access (albasani) but no binaries....a bit hard for me to justify atm

CHR15

I've reached the point where I can no longer justify NOT having newsgroup access. :)

456789

CHR15 wrote: »

Ensure you have things like Quickpar (Free) - Winrar (Free) - 7-zip (Free)

sabnzbd has built in par check, repair and unrar/unzip - also winrar isn't free but the trial doesn't expire afaik http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm